Thursday shiplate / sunday ivy house

Again this will be fairly brief, Thursday started badly when lillypool cafe wasnt open, to hot for the chef methinks, so a sandwich meal deal from the cafe, ots not the same. John got the draw underway, and i picked up ticket 6, good skimmer area at the mo, so that was going to ne it today then, that was until i got the peg and saw plenty if carp on the top, some feeding off some scum floating around, others moving a bit to fast to mug. So a mugger.set up, a margin meat rig, but never had a touch on that, and a silver,s rig for skimmers on worm over groundbait, on the whistle i fed two lines at 11 mtrs with groundbait with worm and caster in, a pellet line at 14 mtrs, started.trying to mug but they were having non of it , actually turning away from the pellet, there were skimmers on the groundbait lines, and i should have stuck to my guns and fished for them all match, but i couldnt resist the shadows, i only actually spent about 50% of the match fishing for skimmers, i ended up with 32lb of silvers, and 3 mugged carp for 30lb, so 62 and just snuck into 3rd so money back then, gary flinders won on the day on peg 5 with 107lb, mugged.or shallow in the feed, nigel Bartlett won the silvers with 39lb, picks and weigh sheet below.

today(sunday) and it was off to ivy house with chris fox for a match on the old match lake, had a breakfast at the fishery and it was very nice, no complaints from me. Into the draw and pull out peg 12, chris to my right on 13 and stu foale to my right on peg 10, the venue has a 16 mtr limit, and as i use a daiwa tournament pole i now i was going to be a bit short of the island, as its a proper 16mtr reach to a rush bed, so 2 pellet rigs for across each side of the rushes, same rigs would do for the margins, i set up a silvers rig but didnt give that to much time. I spent most of my time axross to the island, and ive had some bigger fish from the margin in the last hour, ive had a bit of a weight meltdown today with my nets, considering i have been really good lately, LOL 😂, first net want 42lb , second net went over 80, doh, so lost the net, what a twat, its cost me winning as 125 has been top today, i wont say what judith called me, but it was the same as when you stick a needle in you finger, weigh sheet below, shows me having 113lb, but it should read 42lb, oh well.